Cannabis from Canada, cigarettes from Moldova… A busy 48 hours for the customs service

Cannabis from Canada, cigarettes from Moldova… A busy 48 hours for the customs service

A series of seizures of over the last few days have yielded cannabis with a street value of around €120,000 and cigarettes and tobacco with a retail value of over €23,000.

The largest seizure was made in Co. Longford this morning. Officers from the Revenue’s Customs Service and gardaí seized 6 kilos of herbal cannabis following the search of a house in Leglan.

It’s believed the drugs originated in Canada. A 22-year-old male was arrested and taken for further questioning.

Dublin

Two tobacco seizures took place in the capital. On Wednesday, customs officers at the airport seized 20,000 ‘L&N’ cigarettes with a retail value of €9,500 and a potential tax loss to the exchequer of €8,302 when they stopped and searched two Romanian women in their twenties who had arrived on a flight from Chisnau, Moldova.

They were arrested and appeared at the Criminal Courts of Justice yesterday, where Judge Patricia McNamara remanded them in custody to appear again next Thursday.

Six kilos of illegal tobacco — with an estimated retail value of €2,758 and potential loss to the exchequer of €2,356 — were seized at Dublin Port last night. An Irish man in his thirties is being questioned and a file on the case is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.